Datatype — variable font that turns text into charts
37 points by ehamberg
37 points by ehamberg
I only get a blank page. The DOM is there but I can't see anything.
Using a font for charts is not good for accessibility.
But was it the reason I only got a blank page? Nope: turns out there's an "opacity: 0;" CSS rule on body.
There's also that opacity rule on other elements.
It turns out I had to disable ublock origin to get because the fonts file were blocked and then some javascript removed these opacity rules I guess.
But well, I also have browser rules to force using my font choice (I hate serifs).
I'm quite parted about all this. Using a font for charts is definitely the wrong tool. OTOH, the charts values are provided so it's maybe not that bad (although seeing just the values is rarely expected). There are some nice things but it's not really usable in practice: there are too many actual and current issues.
"vibecoding" tag disclosure: I was going to write a long comment with all my findings (if the first paragraph or the article wasn't telling enough) but guess I don't need to do that at all (I'll probably end up making a SlopHub account again just so I can use Code Search).
I hadn't thought of leaking tool info through .gitignore. I guess this is one more benefit to just doing blanket ignore for anything starting with _ or . and then manually exempting specifics.
My standard .gitignore-file starting point for reference:
_*
.*
_*/
.*/
!.gitignore
I guess that's a good option if you want to hide those, I'll probably end up having to add "the author's dotfiles repository" to the list of things to check when looking for LLM usage indicators.
This looks amazing and I like it a lot, but... I think the accessibility issues are too much
I don't get how this would be nicer than just using svgs with display inline-block. Maybe if it was a monospace font you could use it in a terminal